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The Future IT Summit 2022 recognises top IT industry and enterprise executives

The Future IT Summit and Catalysts Awards 2022 announced the winners of Catalyst Marketing, Catalyst CIO, and Top Ten Best IT Companies to Work with and Titans Badge of Honour.

The title sponsors of the Future IT Summit and Catalysts Awards 2022 were Zero & One – AWS, AMD, SecureNet, VirsecRaqmiyat, HTP, PurestorageLogitec – Ingram, Netapp – Ingram, FreshWorks – VAD, EpicorAutomation Anywhere, Finesse, Dell – Mindware, Sherpa CommunicationHewlett Packard – EmitacInfoblox, Teksalah, Nakivo, Scality and Sherpa.

 The Titans Badge of Honor Award Ceremony

The Vision of Titans states, ‘Not everybody makes it to The Titans…. But the Best’. The Titans ‘Badge of Honor’ is not an award that determines the capability, it is an Honor that echoes the supremacy of the CIOs. The Badge was bestowed to the Top 25 CIOs who made it to the Top Story of Titans in the year 2021-22 and the winners include:

Name Organisation
Nagesh Ashwartha AlHamra
Ashraf Salah Hilton Worldwide
Saif AlSiskek SEHA
Roger Tabbal Accor
Shrenik Jain Siemens
Abdul Rahman Jaroudi Mawarid Holding
Sunando Chaudhuri ADNEC
MN Chaturvedi Oasis Investment
Manish Bindra Galadari
Samit Jha Laticrete
Umesh Moolchandani Bin Dasmal
Krishan Kant Landmark
Paul Robert Serco
Mustansir Aziz GDC
Eoin Daly CBD
Antonio Campos MIG Holding
Qusai AlMaqdadi EnY
Jayesh Maganlal DAMAC
Sreejith Chakraborthy GEMS
Akash Lall Global Village
Gigi Mathews Itihad Investments
Vibhin Vijayakumar Marine Dredging
Vijay Jain Dulsco
Kashif Rana HSA Group
Eyad Kashkash AlRamz
Shinoj Sebastian Royal Group
Mohammed Qattash Fairmont Palm

The Catalyst Awards

The Catalyst awards puts forth the industry’s most coveted title and favourite awards ceremony of recognising the trailblazers in the industry who have been uplifting the brand and reputation of their respective organisations in these difficult times with various cutting-edge initiatives, platforms and market-penetration and truly acting as ‘Catalysts’ in the ever-changing market landscape.

The Catalyst CIO Awards Ceremony

 Government

Name Organisation
Arul Jose Vigin DIFC Courts
Hamad khalifa alnuaimi Abu Dhabi Police GHQ
Abdulla Ali Ahli MOHAMMED BIN RASHID SPACE CENTER
Abdalla Al Ali Dubai Multi Commodities Center

Banking and Finance

Name Organisation
SREEDHAR SURAGOUNI Oman Insurance Company
Soheyl Kadjani FIrst Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)
Hakam Abu-Zarour Emirates Development Bank

 Capital Markets and Investments

Name Organisation
Gogem Artug Mubadala Capital

 Investment Management

Name Organisation
Eyad Kashkash Al Ramz Corporation PJSC

 Education

Name Organisation
Sreejit Chakrabarty GEMS Dubai American Academy
Sunil Kumar Nair Al Falah University
Dr Abdulla Nasser Alnoaimi Shk Nasser Centre- Bahrain

Facility Management

Name Organisation
Hussain Saifuddin Emrill Services

FMCG

Name Organisation
Taha Tkito Americana Foods

Healthcare

Presented by Ben McDonald, Dell Technologies

Name Organisation
Nawaf Mohamed Abdulrahman Mohammed bin Kalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Specialist Cardiac Centre
Jaleel Rahiman Prime Healthcare Group
Bader Al Qubaisi SEHA Abu Dhabi Health Services Co
Pradeepkumar Nair Oaiss Dental Clinics
Manal Allam Merck Group
Aliasgar Bohari Zulekha Hospital

Hospitality

Name Organisation
Muhamed Noufel Royal continental hotels & suites
SABIN SUBRAMANNIAN CLASS HOTEL APARTMENTS
Najwa Hamzeh Red Sea Development Company
Anish T Varughese Skelmore Group

Manufacturing

Name Organisation
Samit Jha Laticrete International, Inc.
Kashif R. Rana HSA Group
Umesh Moolchandani Bin Dasmal Group
MOHANNAD HENNAWI NAFFCO FZCO
Mustansir Aziz Automech Group
Arnab Debroy Metito Overseas Limited

Oil and Gas

Name Organisation
Aditya Kaushik Adyard Abudhabi

Real Estate

Name Organisation
Mubarik Hussain Bloom Holding
Ahmed Al Ahmad Nakheel
Fahad Deshmukh Sobha Realty

 

Damir Jaksic KEO International Consultants
Jayesh Maganlal Damac Properties
Dinesh Kumar Driven Properties
Ayman Medakka Al Masaood National General Contracting

Retail

Name Organisation
Fayaz Ahamed Badubhai AL Yousuf Group
Hemanth Kumar Shetty Tips and Toes (Ben Suhail Group)
Karthikeyan GURUSAMY ( G K ) Truebell Group of companies

Services

Name Organisation
Vijay Jain Dulsco
Gregory Naidoo Majid Al Futtaim Global Solutions
Vimal Rama Chandran HLB HAMT

Conglomerates

Name Organisation
Madhukar Chaturvedi Alshirawi Group of Companies
Shrikant A. Kabboor Arada
Manish Bindra Galadari Brothers

Telecom

Name Organisation
Ken Maas Axiom Telecom

The FITS 2022 also witnessed two special awards in the CIO Category:

Category Name Organisation
Lifetime Achievement Award Mario Foster Al Naboodah Group Enterprise
IT PERSON OF THE YEAR Venkatesh Mahadevan Dubai Investments PJSC

The Catalyst Marketing Awards Ceremony

Channel

Name Organisation
Faraz Ali Khan ASBIS Middle East
Tarannum Saqib Ingram Micro
Maha Kibrit Mindware
Varsha Krishnamurthy emt Distribution
Rasha Islim Emitac Enterprise Solution
Mohan Babu Murugesan Bits Secure IT Infrastructure
Avinash Gujje CloudBox Technologies
Francea Lobo Finesse FZ
Aditya Puri Redington Gulf

Vendor

Name Organisation
Kamlesh Lal Dell Technologies
Ranim Atour Infoblox
Neeraj Kumar Automation Anywhere
Suresh Venkataraman Paessler AG
Charline Fahed SentinelOne
Dev Mehta VIRSEC SYSTEMS
Hassan Hamadani Pure Storage
Sandy Issa Intelligent Security Systems
Neethu Paul Epicor
Vishal Dogra Automation Anywhere
Rajeev Dutt Infinite Blue
Nikhil Sangvi Arcon TechSolutions
Loubna Imenchal Logitech
Lena Halbourian Commvault
Ben McDonald Dell Technologies

The Top 10 IT Companies to Work for in 2022 Awards

The Top Ten Best IT Companies to Work for in 2022 is a one of its kind recognitions in the region for the IT Fraternity that would celebrate the ‘Exuberance’ of the people working in an organization. This special recognition felicitates and recognizes both fast-growing and established companies in UAE that offers tremendous career advancement opportunities together with leading-edge employee perks and benefits and most importantly valuable employee engagement.

TP-Link MEA, Infoblox, Infinite Blue, Aptec- an Ingram Micro Company, Raqmiyat, AMD, Dell Technologies, ASBIS, NetApp felicitated as the ‘The Top 10 IT Companies to Work for in 2022’ by Tushar Sahoo, MD, GEC Media Group. Also, Techneplus has been awarded as ‘Emerging Company’ of the year at FITS 2022.